Jessica Dickinson Goodman is a dual masters degree candidate seeking to combine a Master of Science in Foreign Service (MSFS) with an MA in Global, International, and Comparative History, with a focus on the Middle East and West Africa.

Jessica brings 15 years of international and domestic experiences in NGOs, government, and campaigns, specializing in gender, elections, technology, and human rights. She is former staff to now-U.S. Vice President Kamala D. Harris and has past experience at Harvard Law School, Stanford University, and Carnegie Mellon University.

In addition to her work as a staffer, non-profit board president, and author, Jessica has spent a decade volunteering for the U.S. State Department-funded TechWomen program, that brings leading women in STEM from the Middle East, Africa, Central and South Asia to Silicon Valley for month-long fellowships at top tech companies. As an Impact Coach, Jessica helps her teams identify a socioeconomic issue back home, hone a solution, and pitch their idea to a roomful of investors. Her first team focused on improving Palestinians' access to clean water in the West Bank and Gaza; her most recent team had an agtech proposal to help women farmers in northern Nigeria. Jessica has been honored to visit 1/3 of the countries in the Middle East and practices her Arabic daily.

Jessica hopes to contribute to making our shared world more peaceful, just, prosperous, and free. She is inspired and thrilled by her cohort members and can't wait to work with them on campus.